RSS + Twitter = tFeeder
A few years ago, when technology blogs started becoming popular, I used to waste a lot of time visiting each blog, trying to find interesting technology stories. Then RSS became popular, and as most tech blogs started offering RSS subscription, much of the time spent on visiting each blog was reduced to a short, periodic visit to my RSS reader, looking for interesting technology stories.
But as time went by, I realized that RSS was not enough. Although it offers a simple way of accessing a large amount of content, it lacks one major feature - ranking. The RSS protocol was never meant to include any information in regards to the quality of each story. There were many other options to find hot stories (such as Digg), but in the past few months, there’s a new kid on the block - Twitter. And as most technology bloggers would agree - Twitter is becoming a powerful a recommendation engine, particularly useful for promoting interesting technology stories.
So we took the best of both worlds and created tFeeder - a realtime leaderboard of the hottest technology news from the top technology blogs, mashing up RSS and Twitter. Tfeeder reads the different blogs’ RSS feeds to learn of newly published posts, and gets the number of times a post was tweeted (by calling the TweetMeMe API), dug, or commented. That way, you get realtime list of the most interesting technology stories on the web at any given moment (we update tFeeder every few minutes).
Tfeeder also makes it very simple to focus on what interests you the most - you can filter the stories list by blog, by keywords (Google, Twitter, iPhone etc.) or by a keyword search, all using a single mouse click.
Tfeeder also provides aggregate data about the top technology blogs and writers. We will occasionally publish interesting figures about the different blogs, writers and popular technology topics as they are reflected in the realtime statistics we gather.
We recommend you to register to our RSS feed, it’s free,fun and useful!
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